Word: stalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their job. Statistics show that the best teams rarely can run more than 14 plays in succession without a mistake, and poorer teams less. So Harvard is willing to give up to three first downs per drive and wait for the error--a fumble, interception, big loss--which will stall the opposition short of the end zone...
CNCV leaders had charged Thursday that the city was deliberately slowing down judicial procedures in order to stall the resolution off the ballot. But Loeser said last night that Trodden's action "showed a lot more cooperative attitude on the part of the City...
...last July's Moscow air show, it displayed two new swing-wing combat planes, including one that had unquestionably profited from the tribulations of the F-lll. The Russians' Mikoyan-designed fighter has its air ducts placed far forward on the fuselage, apparently thus avoiding engine-stall caused by rearward ducts on the F-lll. Nevertheless, the F-lll is still the hottest plane, packing the most advanced radar and missile systems in the skies today, giving the nation a swinging aerial edge...
...contained, $13,000 Cortez bus camper, while their three children splashed in the swimming pool at Florida's Fiesta Key Resort. Near by, Joseph Haigh and his wife took the sun beside their Dodge camper, a 27-ft.-long bus that, when fully equipped with stainless-steel galley, stall shower, toilet and bunks for six, can cost more than $16,000. "We're land cruisers now," says Haigh, who gave up a lifetime of boating after it got to be too much work...
...rates introduced last year, Collector Cohen will also owe rebates to many another tax payer this year, and the thought makes Government economists almost rapturous. They figure that all the returned money will help start the U.S. consumer spending again, and thereby get the economy out of its present stall...